typescript Memes

The aristocracy of web development has arrived! TypeScript developers looking down their noses at JavaScript peasants with that perfect mix of pity and disgust. Nothing says "I'm better than you" quite like strong typing and compile-time error checking. Meanwhile, JavaScript developers are out there living dangerously with their undefined is not a function errors, like savages without powdered wigs. The TypeScript nobility wouldn't dare touch code that doesn't explicitly declare its intentions - how barbaric!

Looking at that isEven function hurts my soul on a spiritual level. Someone's literally checking if a number is even by hard-coding individual cases (0 is even, 1 is odd, 2 is even, 3 is odd...) instead of just using the modulo operator ( return num % 2 === 0 ). And they're doing this while casually flying 30,000 feet in the air with a gorgeous view! The perfect combo of terrible code and flex. My sanity would jump out that window faster than you can say "runtime complexity."

Oh. My. GOD. The absolute TRAUMA of learning TypeScript after JavaScript is like having your brain wiped by that Men in Black neuralyzer! One minute you're happily writing code without caring what type anything is, living your best chaotic JavaScript life, and then BOOM! TypeScript comes along demanding to know the EXACT TYPE of every. single. variable. you've ever created! Suddenly you're drowning in interfaces, generics, and union types while your precious JavaScript knowledge evaporates into the void. It's like TypeScript looked at your JavaScript skills and said "That's cute, now forget EVERYTHING you know about being flexible with data types!" 💀

The JavaScript purists have found their champion. Someone finally brave enough to sign an executive order against TypeScript, the language that dares to add types to JavaScript's beautiful chaos. Next thing you know, they'll be requiring documentation and consistent naming conventions. Pure madness. The compiler fanatics will be celebrating tonight with their manually allocated memory and segmentation faults while the rest of us just want to run npm install 47 times until something works.

Look at the date on that announcement: April 1, 2025. Someone clearly understands TypeScript so well they can time travel to make April Fool's jokes from the future. The "I understand how TS works and can parse dates" title is pure gold - because anyone who's spent more than 10 minutes with JavaScript date handling knows it's the programming equivalent of trying to solve a Rubik's cube underwater while wearing oven mitts. Next up: Vercel announces they're rewriting Next.js in COBOL for "performance reasons." I'll believe that one too if you catch me before my morning coffee.